Technical Specifications

Form factor

4U training server

NPU

• Eight Huawei Ascend 910 NPUs.
• 16 Huawei 64-bit TaiShan processor cores at 2.0 GHz.
• Three Hydra links forming two 4P Full Mesh links. The communication bandwidth between NPUs can reach 90 GB/s.

CPU

• Two Intel Cascade Lake processors.
• Up to 3.8 GHz frequency, 38.5 MB L3 cache, and three 10.4 GT/s UPI links.
• L2 cache added, with each core exclusively occupying 1 MB L2 cache.

Memory

• Up to 24 DDR4 DIMM slots, supporting RDIMMs.
• A maximum memory speed of 2933 MT/s.
• The capacity of a single DIMM can be 32 GB, 64 GB.

Storage

Drive:

• Various drive configurations. For details, see Drive Configuration.
• Hot-swappable drives.

• RAID controller card:
  • Use the Computing Product Compatibility Checker to obtain the RAID controller card models.
  • Supercapacitor for power-off protection, RAID support, RAID level migration, and drive roaming. For details about RAID controller cards, see Atlas 800 AI Training Server RAID Controller Card User Guide (Model 9010).

FlexIO card

An NPU supports a maximum of four FlexIO cards. Each FlexIO card provides the following network ports:

Two 100GE optical ports, supporting 100GE optical fibers or copper cables.

PCIe slot

• Up to six PCIe 3.0 slots.
• PRM 1 supports:
  • One FHFL PCIe 3.0 x16 slots (width: PCIe 3.0 x16)
  • Two FHFL PCIe 3.0 x16 slots (width: PCIe 3.0 x8)
• PRM 2 supports:
  • One HHHL PCIe 3.0 x16 slots (width: PCIe 3.0 x16)
  • Two HHHL PCIe 3.0 x16 slots (width: PCIe 3.0 x8)

Port

• Two USB 3.0 ports and one DB15 VGA port on the front panel
• Two USB 3.0 ports, one DB15 VGA port, one RJ45 serial port, one RJ45 management network port, and two 10GE optical ports.

Fan module

• Eight hot-swappable fan modules in N+1 redundancy mode.
• Tolerating the failure of a single fan module.

System management

Huawei iBMC supports Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI), Serial over LAN (SOL), KVM over IP, and virtual media, and provides one 10/100/1000 Mbps RJ45 management network port.

Security

• Administrator password
• Secure boot and trusted boot
• TPM (available in and out of China)
• (Optional) Front bezel
  NOTE:

  The front bezel is installed on the front panel and comes with a security lock to prevent unauthorized operations on drives.

Graphics card

The mainboard integrates an SM750 graphics card, providing 32 MB memory and supporting a maximum resolution of 1920 x 1200 at 60 Hz with 16 M colors.